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Industry 4.0 Technologies Revolutionising Footwear: Paving the Path to Circularity Through Innovative Services

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  • Leonor Monteiro

    (INESC TEC
    University of Porto)

  • Ana Correia Simões

    (INESC TEC)

  • António J. Baptista

    (INESC TEC)

  • Rui Rebelo

    (INESC TEC)

Abstract

The footwear industry, a sub-sector of textile industrial sector, faces increased pressures towards higher levels of sustainability and circularity along all the value chain. Along the last decades, shoe products have become more complex products, integrating a greater number of components, materials diversity and often long supply-chains related to cost reduction and production or sourcing delocalization strategies. Full value-chain digitalization, as a cornerstone of Industry 4.0 paradigm, plays a key role for leveraging more sustainable and circular products, namely by traceability operationalization and forthcoming instruments such as Digital Product Passport. This research studied, via a state-of-art framing of the challenges followed by qualitative approach, how Industry 4.0 technologies can support the development of new services that contribute to sustainable and circular practices in footwear companies. An interview-based survey was conducted to 6 footwear companies, to map the adoption level of Industry 4.0 technologies and cross-linking to circular services business models.

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  • Leonor Monteiro & Ana Correia Simões & António J. Baptista & Rui Rebelo, 2025. "Industry 4.0 Technologies Revolutionising Footwear: Paving the Path to Circularity Through Innovative Services," Springer Proceedings in Business and Economics,, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:prbchp:978-3-031-72494-7_53
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-72494-7_53
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